CSU Canvas Instructor Quick Start Guide QUIZZES http://info.canvas.colostate.edu Revised Nov. 13, 2014 1
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Online quizzes can be used to help assess student learning. In Canvas, an instructor can create questions in a Question Bank or on a quiz. A quiz can have due dates and a time limit. Most questions are auto graded. Scores for auto graded quizzes are automatically entered into the grade book. Key Facts... 5 Quiz Types... 6 Graded Quiz... 6 Practice Quiz... 6 Graded Survey... 6 Ungraded Survey... 6 Question Types... 6 Question Banks or Stand-Alone Quizzes... 7 Question Banks... 7 Stand Alone Quizzes... 7 Manage Question Banks... 8 Open Quizzes... 8 Add Question Bank... 9 Create Question Bank... 9 Open Question Bank... 9 Question Bank Options... 10 Add a Question... 10 Create A Question See Appendix I... 11 How Multiple Answer Questions Are Graded... 11 Create a Quiz From a Question Bank... 11 Open Quizzes... 11 Click the Quizzes link.... 11 Create New Quiz... 12 Edit Quiz Settings... 12 Find Questions... 13 Select Questions... 14 Add Questions... 15 Preview Quiz... 16 Create a Question Group... 16 Revised Nov. 13, 2014 3
Save Quiz... 18 Publish Quiz... 18 View Student Quiz Attempt... 19 Open Quizzes... 19 Open Quiz... 19 View Results... 20 View Individual Results... 20 Student View Results... 21 Next Steps with Quizzes:... 22 CSU Canvas Help Resources... 22 Canvas Quizzes Exercises... 23 Appendix I: Canvas Auto Graded Question Examples... 24 True False... 24 Multiple Choice... 25 Fill in the Blank... 26 Fill in Multiple Blanks... 27 Multiple Answers... 28 Multiple Drop Downs... 29 Matching... 30 Numerical Answer... 31 Formula Question... 32 Revised Nov. 13, 2014 4
Key Facts 9 auto graded question types 2 manually graded question types Answers on multiple choice or multiple answer questions are not labeled/numbered. Questions on a quiz are not numbered. Questions can be placed in Question Banks or on stand-alone Quizzes. Re-grading is available for Multiple Choice, True/False and Multiple Answer questions. NOTE: Re-grading does NOT work if questions are linked to a Question Bank. Question Groups, similar to Question Sets, can be used to randomize questions on a Quiz. Question groups can be created from Question Banks or can be a created in a standalone quiz. Question Groups can only be drawn from one Question Bank at a time. Questions can be edited in the Question Bank. o Do not edit questions after any students have begun to take a quiz. After a quiz is published, students who have already opened or taken the quiz would not see any changes made to the questions in a group. Partial Credit for multiple answer questions is based on fraction of points. o E.g. Question 1 has 4 possible answers and is worth 2 points. o Answers A and C are correct o Students selects A (correct) and D (incorrect). o Points earned would be 0 (+1 for correct answer, -1 for incorrect answer. If a test is exported from RamCT Blackboard and imported into Canvas, individual questions may appear as a question group with one question, which will work just fine. The Moderate test option will allow you to set different amount of time and number of attempts for a student. You cannot reset a student s test attempt. You can allow them to have an extra attempt. Revised Nov. 13, 2014 5
Quiz Types Graded Quiz A graded quiz is the most common quiz, and Canvas automatically creates a column in the grade book for any graded quizzes you build. After a student takes a graded quiz, certain question types will be automatically graded. Practice Quiz A practice quiz can be used as a learning tool to help students see how well they understand the course material. Students do not receive a grade for practice quizzes, even though the quiz results display the number of points earned in the quiz. Practice quizzes do not appear in the Syllabus or the Gradebook. Graded Survey A graded survey allows the instructor to give students points for completing the survey, but it does not allow the survey to be graded for right or wrong answers. Graded surveys have the option to be anonymous. Ungraded Survey An ungraded survey allows you to get opinions or other information from your students, but students do not receive a grade for their responses. With ungraded surveys, you can make responses anonymous. Ungraded surveys do not appear in the Syllabus or the Gradebook. Question Types Multiple Choice** Multiple Answers** True False** Fill in the Blank Fill in Multiple Blanks Multiple Dropdowns Matching Numerical Answer Formula *Essay *File Upload *These question types need to be manually graded. **These questions can be re-graded as long as they are NOT linked to a question bank. Revised Nov. 13, 2014 6
Question Banks or Stand-Alone Quizzes There are two options for organizing quizzes in Canvas: Question Banks Question banks provide the ability to reuse questions on different quizzes. Question banks can be a very good way to keep questions organized. E.g. You can have a question bank for chapter 1, chapter 2, etc. Questions taken from a question bank CANNOT use the re-grade feature. In place of the re-grade feature, instructors can use fudge points when grading a quiz in Canvas. Fudge points allow you to manually adjust an overall quiz score. Learn more about fudge points. Stand Alone Quizzes If an instructor needs to adjust the answer to a question students have already taken, they can change/update the question s answer, re-grade and update students scores. Questions on a stand-alone quiz cannot not be reused on other quizzes. Question types that can be re-graded: True/False, Multiple Choice, Multiple Answer Revised Nov. 13, 2014 7
Manage Question Banks Open Quizzes Click the Quizzes link. Zoom Click the Settings icon [1] and click the Manage Question Banks link. Revised Nov. 13, 2014 8
Add Question Bank Click Add Question Bank button to create a new question bank. Create Question Bank Name the question bank Training Questions and press Return (on a MAC keyboard) or Enter (on a PC keyboard). Open Question Bank Open the question bank by clicking the title of the question bank. Revised Nov. 13, 2014 9
Question Bank Options After opening the Question Bank, you can: 1. Add a Question 2. Edit Question Bank Details 3. Move Multiple Questions 4. Delete Question Bank 5. Verify Question Bank Bookmark (by default new Question Banks are bookmarked automatically) 6. Align Outcomes Add a Question Zoom Click the Add a Question button. Add as many individual questions as you wish to your question bank. Click the Update Question button to save your changes. Now you can reference this single bank of questions in many different quizzes. Revised Nov. 13, 2014 10
Create A Question See Appendix I See Appendix I at the end of this handout to see examples of how to create each type of question. How Multiple Answer Questions Are Graded This question type awards a fraction of the points available for each correct answer and subtracts an equivalent fraction for incorrect answers. For example, a multiple answer question is worth 1 point and has 4 response choices: 2 are correct and 2 are incorrect. Each correct answer is worth.5 points. If a student selects one of the right answers and one of the incorrect options, the student would earn.5 point for their correct answer, but then that amount would subtract.5 point for the incorrect answer, bringing the point total to 0. Create a Quiz From a Question Bank Open Quizzes Click the Quizzes link. Revised Nov. 13, 2014 11
Create New Quiz Click the Add Quiz button. Edit Quiz Settings Revised Nov. 13, 2014 12
On the Settings tab, enter the name of your quiz [1]. In the Rich Content Editor [2], introduce your quiz with formatted text, images, video, or sample math equations. You can even use the media commenting tool to record an introduction to the quiz. Complete the rest of the quiz settings [3]. If you need help with settings, view the lesson on Quiz options. Find Questions Click the Questions tab [1]. Click the Find Questions button [2]. Revised Nov. 13, 2014 13
Select Questions You will see all of the Question Banks that you have built in other courses where you are the Instructor. You will also see Question Banks that have been added by your administrator to your sub-account. This makes it easy for instructors in the same department or program to share resources. Click the name of the question bank you want to select questions from. Note: If you choose to Find Questions using a question bank, changes made to questions in the question bank will not update in the quiz. Changes made to questions in the question bank will update in the quiz only if the questions are linked to a question bank. Questions linked to a database cannot use the re-grade feature. Revised Nov. 13, 2014 14
Add Questions Check the boxes next to the questions you wish to add to your quiz [1]. If you want to select all the questions, click the Select All link [2]. Canvas will reference the questions you chose as each student takes the quiz. These questions will stay in sequential order and stay in order each time the quiz is taken or previewed. If you want to add the selected questions to a quiz group, select the drop-down list [3]. You can create a new group or an existing group. When you've selected all the questions you want to use, click the Add Selected Questions button [4]. Click Save to save the quiz. Revised Nov. 13, 2014 15
Preview Quiz At the top right of the quiz page click Preview to view your quiz. Create a Question Group A question group allows you to randomly display a certain number of questions to your students. This helps to present a different quiz for each. You create a number of questions. Then determine how many of those questions to randomly display. In this example, we will create a question set drawn for questions we have created in a Question Bank. On your quiz, under the Questions tab, at the bottom of the page, click New Question Group. Type a name for the Question Group. Type the number of questions to pick from the question bank. Type the number of points per question. Click Link to a Question Bank Revised Nov. 13, 2014 16
Click on the question bank that contains the questions for your question group. Click Select Bank. Click Create Group Click Save When you click the Preview button you will see the 4 questions randomly chosen from the question bank. Revised Nov. 13, 2014 17
Save Quiz Click the Save button to save your work on your quiz. Publish Quiz Click the Preview button to see what students will see when they take the quiz [1]. If the preview shows the quiz the way you want it, click the Publish button [2]. Note: You should not publish your quiz until it is your final product. Although you can make changes to the quiz after it is published, students who have already opened or completed the quiz will not Revised Nov. 13, 2014 18
View Student Quiz Attempt Open Quizzes Click the Quizzes link. Open Quiz Zoom Click the title of the quiz. Revised Nov. 13, 2014 19
View Results Click the Settings icon [1], then select the Show Student Quiz Results link [2]. View Individual Results Under the heading Students who have taken the quiz, click the name of a student. Revised Nov. 13, 2014 20
Student View Results A correct answer will be indicated by a green flag [1]. A wrong answer will show two flags a red flag [2] will point to your answer, while a gray flag [3] will show the correct answer Revised Nov. 13, 2014 21
Next Steps with Quizzes: After taking the basics workshop, check the Canvas Help Guides for other topics such as: Allow a Student to have more time or have an extra quiz attempt Use Question Groups to randomize questions http://guides.instructure.com/m/4152/l/98624-how-do-i-create-a-new-quiz-with-a-question-group Quiz Statistics Grade One Question at a time (e.g. Essays) http://guides.instructure.com/m/4152/l/50753-once-i-publish-my-quiz-how-can-i-give-mystudents-extra-time-or-extra-attempts http://guides.instructure.com/m/4152/l/41484-once-i-publish-my-quiz-what-kinds-of-quizstatistics-are-available http://guides.instructure.com/m/4152/l/141685-how-do-i-grade-one-quiz-question-at-a-time-inspeedgrader CSU Canvas Help Resources CSU Canvas Help Web Site: http://info.canvas.colostate.edu Canvas Online Help Guides http://guides.instructure.com/ Canvas Video Guides http://guides.instructure.com/m/4210 College Canvas Coordinators: http://help.ramct.colostate.edu/instructor-support.aspx Central CSU Canvas Support: canvashelp@colostate.edu Revised Nov. 13, 2014 22
Canvas Quizzes Exercises 1. What are the two types of questions that must be manually graded? 2. Why would you choose to use stand-alone quizzes instead of question banks? 3. Create a Question Bank called Training Questions. 4. Create three different types of auto graded questions in the Question Bank. 5. Under Assignments, create an Assignment Group called Quizzes. 6. Create a Quiz called Question Types -Under Question Settings set the time limit to 20 minutes. 7. Add the questions you created in your Question Bank to the Quiz. 8. Preview the Quiz 9. Publish the Quiz 10. Take the Quiz with your Student Training account. 11. With your instructor account, view the student s graded quiz attempt in the grade book. Revised Nov. 13, 2014 23
Appendix I: Canvas Auto Graded Question Examples For each question you create, you can give the question a name, designate the number of points, and provide feedback for correct and incorrect answers. Click Update Question to save. Click the pencil icon next to a question to edit it. True False Revised Nov. 13, 2014 24
Multiple Choice Revised Nov. 13, 2014 25
Fill in the Blank Use to designate where answer belongs in the question. Not case sensitive. Can list multiple possible spellings for an answer. Revised Nov. 13, 2014 26
Fill in Multiple Blanks User square brackets [ ] to indicate where answers go. Not case sensitive. Partial credit will be assigned if only one of the fields is filled out correctly. Revised Nov. 13, 2014 27
Multiple Answers This question type awards a fraction of the points available for each correct answer and subtracts an equivalent fraction for incorrect answers. In the example below, the question is worth 1 point and has 4 response choices: 2 are correct and 2 are incorrect. Each correct answer is worth.5 points. If a student selects one of the right answers and one of the incorrect options, the student would earn.5 point for their correct answer, but then that amount would subtract.5 point for the incorrect answer, bringing the point total to 0. Revised Nov. 13, 2014 28
Multiple Drop Downs Use square brackets [ ] to indicate where answers should go. Revised Nov. 13, 2014 29
Matching Text for Additional Match Possibilities (these words will be added to the matching list to distract students from the correct answers). Partial grading is available. Revised Nov. 13, 2014 30
Numerical Answer Answer can be an exact number or within a range. Revised Nov. 13, 2014 31
Formula Question Place variables in square brackets [ ]. Revised Nov. 13, 2014 32
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